Health law's intrusion is real, not fiction

3:28 AM,
Jan. 29, 2014

Congressman Marsha Blackburn

Written by

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn

In 2012, America was introduced to Julia, the fictional poster girl for President Obama's range of policy goals that were touted to improve the lives of average Americans. Julia was a stand-in for you and me, a way for us to see how the president's reformulating of the American government was going to impact our way of life on a personal level. Of the many ways the Obama administration envisioned reaching into Julia's life, by far the most intrusive and harmful was through health care, where they promised increased access to care, lower costs and higher quality for everyone if we would just allow ...